“The Contenders”, a satire on reality TV, where the “contenders” have to kill each other, found not
to have been in contravention of the Broadcasting Code. The film must be judged as a whole. Parental control mechanism blocking out film for under eighteens and green channel blocking out all instances of crude and profane language. One instance in “red channel”, however, being found to be blasphemous removed from further screenings. M-Net offering to do so and the matter, accordingly, settled. M-Net requested to ensure that subscribers are regularly informed on how the parental mechanism works and that there is a green channel which blocks out crude and profane language. Complaint dismissed as to violence and settled as to blasphemy.